Extending OpenOffice.org

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MS Office and OpenOffice. Second,. O3Spaces Workplace’s competitive pric- …. can also upload a new OpenOffice.org. document to a workspace. The extension …

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Although the O3Spaces Work-
place collaboration software
doesn’t attempt to emulate
SharePoint feature-by-feature, it does
provide a viable alternative [1]. Two
features of O3Spaces make it especially
useful for mixed environments. First,
O3Spaces Workplace does support the
Microsoft Office suite, which is a boon
for companies and workgroups that use
MS Office and OpenOffice. Second,
O3Spaces Workplace’s competitive pric-
ing makes it an attractive alternative,
even for shops running only Microsoft
Office. The O3Spaces company has even
pledged to release an open-source
edition of their document collaboration
solution by the end of 2007.
Installation Options
O3Spaces Workplace installs in three
ways. The easiest way is to download a
VMware virtual machine trial from
O3Spaces’ website. The image includes
a slimmed-down version of Ubuntu with
the pre-configured version of the
O3Spaces Workplace software. This so-
lution is perfect if you want to try
O3Spaces without fiddling with installa-
tion and configuration - provided you
have hardware that is powerful enough
to run the virtual machine. The full ver-
sion of O3Spaces Workplace comes as a
Workspace Deployment Kit containing a
set of scripts and server packages that
you can use to install O3Spaces…